LOCK HAVEN, Pa. - The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference announced its Football Athletes of the Week for Week 2 of the 2025 season. In the Western Division, IUP's Matthew Rueve was honored as Offensive Athlete of the Week while Slippery Rock's Teddy Gregory was named Defensive Athletes of the Week and Clarion's Frankie Passatino III was selected as Special Teams Athlete of the Week. In the Eastern Division, East Stroudsburg's Sean McTaggart (Offensive Athlete of the Week) and Everette Dingle (Defensive Athlete of the Week) are joined by Kutztown's Noah Kracyla (Special Teams) as this week's award-winners.
PSAC Western Division Offensive Athlete of the Week
Matthew Rueve
IUP
Quarterback
Graduate Student
Cincinnatti, Ohio / St. Xavier
Rueve tied the IUP single-game record, passing for five touchdowns against Lock Haven in IUP's first win of the season, 42-10. Overall, Rueve threw for 365 yards, completing 24 of 32 passes. His longest pass of the day went for 72 yards.
PSAC Western Division Defensive Athlete of the Week
Teddy Gregory Jr.
Slippery Rock
Linebacker
Sophomore
Stow, Ohio / Stow-Munroe Falls
Gregory tallied a career-high 15 tackles to lead The Rock defense in a 35-28 overtime win over Shepherd lasy Saturday night. The most important tackle of the night came on fourth and one with under 2:00 to play when Gregory combined on a game-changing tackle that gave the ball back to SRU and allowed the offense to eventually tie the game and force OT. Had Shepherd gained another half yard on that play, the Rams would have won the game in regulation.
PSAC Western Division Special Teams Athlete of the Week
Frankie Passatino III
Clarion
Punter
Senior
Wall Township, N.J. / Wall
Passantino III contributed in multiple phases in the Golden Eagles' win over Shippensburg on Saturday, including successfully executing a fake field goal to score a touchdown. The senior punter kicked seven times on Saturday, landing three punts inside the 20-yard line with just one touchback and sending one punt 52 yards. The highlight of the day, though, came in the third quarter, when he contributed to the Golden Eagles' final touchdown of the day - one that proved essential, as it turned out. With a Clarion drive stalling near the goal line, the Golden Eagles lined up for a short field goal. Passantino, the holder, took the snap from Michael Ippoliti and rolled out to the right, finding a wide open Mathew McGregor for an easy five-yard touchdown pass.
PSAC Eastern Division Offensive Athlete of the Week
Sean McTaggart
East Stroudsburg
Quarterback
Redshirt Senior
Lancaster, Pa. / Lampeter-Strasburg
McTaggart was a perfect 10-for-10 for 212 yards and recorded a pass efficiency rating of 410.1 in ESU's 69-22 road victory over Gannon last Saturday. He broke the Warriors' pass efficiency record, and McTaggart's performance was just the third passer rating of 300+ in school history. McTaggart threw four touchdown passes of 23, 27, 29, and 35 yards.
PSAC Eastern Division Defensive Athlete of the Week
Everette Dingle
East Stroudsburg
Safety
Redshirt Junior
Baltimore, Md. / Concordia Prep
Dingle recorded the most total tackles for ESU with eight (four solo) in ESU's 69-22 win over Gannon last Saturday. He also made a significant game-changing play by intercepting a pass from Gannon's quarterback Ty Hurst that he returned 10 yards deep in GU territory to set up an ESU offensive drive that led to a Warriors' touchdown to make it 21-0.
PSAC Eastern Division Special Teams Athlete of the Week
Noah Kracyla
Kutztown
Wide Receiver / Punt Returner
Redshirt Sophomore
Townsend, Del. / Middletown
Kracyla opened the scoring for Kutztown with a 52-yard punt return for a touchdown in Saturday's 34-0 victory at Edinboro. Kracyla, a redshirt sophomore from Townsend, Del., fielded a low line drive from Fighting Scots' punter Ricco Sastoque and raced up the middle untouched for the score. The TD opened the flood gates for the Golden Bears, who went on to score touchdowns on each of their next four drives. The punt return TD was the second of Kracyla's career. He took one back 74 yards against West Chester last November. Kracyla finished with three punt returns for 65 yards, while also hauling in two catches for 21 yards on offense.